Time Line Of The Ancient Near East
Prior to the rise of the Persian Empire
History |
Mesopotamia | Persia |
| B.C. | Northwest |
Southwest | North Central |
Southeast |
| 6000 | Late Neolithic Period farming, villages, pottery
Bronze Age. City states, early dynasties
Akkadian Empire
Code of Hammurabi
Iron Age
Medes, Sythians, Manneans in Iran |
Jarmo | ||||
| Hassuna | Guran | |||||
| Samarra/Halaf | sarab | Sialk I | ||||
| 5000 | Ubaid Period | Susiana a | Yahya VI | |||
| Giyan V A | Susiana b | Sialk II | ||||
| Susiana c | Yahya V | |||||
| 4000 | Giyan V B | Susiana d | Sialk III | Tall-i Ilbis 1&2 | ||
| Susa A | Tahaya IV C | |||||
| 3500 | Uruk Period | Giyan V C | Susa B | Hissar I | Tall-i Lblis 3 | |
| Giyan V D | ||||||
| 3000 | Jamdat Nasr Period | Susa C | Yahya IV B | |||
| Susa D | Hissar II | Tall-i Iblis 4&5 | ||||
| 2500 | Sialk IV | Yahay IV A | ||||
| Akkadian Period | Giyan IV | Shahdad | ||||
| Neo-Sumerian | Hissar III | |||||
| 2000 | Isin-Larsa Period | |||||
| Old Babylonian Period | Old Elamite Period | |||||
| 1500 | Kassite Period | Middle Elamite Period | ||||
| Hasanlu V | ||||||
| Marlik; Khurvin | ||||||
| 1000 | Hasanlu IV | Sialk A | ||||
| Neo- Assyrian Period | Neo-Elamite Period | Sialk B | ||||
| Neo-Babylonian Period | ||||||